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2022-01-12ZeitschriftenartikelResults and Strategies for a Diversity-Oriented Public Health Monitoring in Germany Germany is a country of immigration; 27% of the population are people with a migration background (PMB). As other countries, Germany faces difficulties in adequately including hard-to-survey populations like PMB into ...
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2022-07-06ZeitschriftenartikelEthanol is indispensable for virucidal hand antisepsis: memorandum from the alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) Task Force, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, and the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany Background The approval of ethanol by the Biocidal Products Regulation has been under evaluation since 2007. This follows concern over alcohol uptake from ethanol-based hand rubs (EBHR). If ethanol is classified as ...
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2022-08-02ZeitschriftenartikelAssessing and improving the validity of COVID-19 autopsy studies - A multicentre approach to establish essential standards for immunohistochemical and ultrastructural analyses Background Autopsy studies have provided valuable insights into the pathophysiology of COVID-19. Controversies remain about whether the clinical presentation is due to direct organ damage by SARS-CoV-2 or secondary ...
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2022-12-15ZeitschriftenartikelIncrease in NDM-1 and NDM-1/OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Germany associated with the war in Ukraine, 2022 In 2022, German surveillance systems observed rapidly increasing numbers of NDM-1- and NDM-1/OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, which may in part reflect recurring pre-pandemic trends. Among these cases, however, a ...
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2022-11-24ZeitschriftenartikelLaunch meeting of the new World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Consumption and Health Care-Associated Infections at the Robert Koch institute, Berlin, Germany, October 2022
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2024-09-05ZeitschriftenartikelErgebnisse hygienisch-mikrobiologischer Untersuchungen aufbereiteter flexibler Endoskope aus Krankenhäusern in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Endoskopien werden sehr häufig durchgeführt und unterliegen strikten hygienischen Anforderungen. Um die Patientensicherheit zu gewährleisten, müssen validierte Aufbereitungsprozesse zur Anwendung kommen. Die hygienisch-m ...
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2024-09-12ZeitschriftenartikelEpidemiologische Situation der RSV-Infektionen auf Basis der Meldedaten für die erste Saison 2023/24 nach Einführung der RSV-Meldepflicht in Deutschland Das Respiratorische Synzytial-Virus (RSV) ist ein weltweit verbreiteter Erreger akuter respiratorischer Erkrankungen in jedem Lebensalter und einer der bedeutendsten Erreger akuter Infektionen der unteren Atemwege, ...
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2024-09-12ZeitschriftenartikelWastewater-based Surveillance on SARS-CoV-2 AMELAG - Weekly report 11.09.2024The SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater is being monitored as part of AMELAG (“Abwassermonitoring für die epidemiologische Lagebewertung”, German for wastewater monitoring for epidemiological situation assessment). Data ...
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2024-09-12ZeitschriftenartikelAbwassersurveillance zu SARS-CoV-2 AMELAG-Wochenbericht vom 11.09.2024Im Rahmen von AMELAG (Abwassermonitoring für die epidemiologische Lagebewertung) wird unter anderem die Last von SARS-CoV-2 im Abwasser überwacht. Aktuell fließen Daten aus 168 Standorten, d.h. Kläranlagen, in die Analysen ...
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2024-09-12ZeitschriftenartikelWochenbericht zur hitzebedingten Mortalität KW 35 Stand: Kalenderwoche 35/2024 (26.08. bis 01.09.2024)Hitzeperioden führen in Deutschland regelmäßig zu einem Anstieg der Mortalität. Um über die aktuelle Lage in Deutschland zu informieren, wird dieser Bericht während des Sommers 2024 (Juni-September) wöchentlich aktualisiert. ...
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2022-05-25Berichte und sonstige TexteAffenpocken: Verdachtsabklärung und Maßnahmen
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2024-09-11ZeitschriftenartikelARE-Wochenbericht KW 36 36. Kalenderwoche (2.9. bis 8.9.2024)Die ARE-Aktivität lag in den letzten Wochen auf einem höheren Niveau als sonst um diese Jahreszeit. Das ARE-Geschehen wird weiterhin hauptsächlich durch Rhinoviren und SARS-CoV-2 bestimmt. In der Bevölkerung und im ambulanten ...
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2022-05-31ZeitschriftenartikelResistance to Mecillinam and Nine Other Antibiotics for Oral Use in Escherichia coli Isolated from Urine Specimens of Primary Care Patients in Germany, 2019/20 Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections in humans. Escherichia coli is by far the leading cause of community-acquired UTIs. Pivmecillinam, the oral prodrug of the penicillin derivative ...
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2022-09-24ZeitschriftenartikelMulticountry study of SARS-CoV-2 and associated risk factors among healthcare workers in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and South Africa Background Reports on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread across Africa have varied, including among healthcare workers (HCWs). This study assessed the comparative SARS-CoV-2 burden and ...
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2022-06-16ZeitschriftenartikelInvestigation of airport sewage to detect importation of poliovirus, Poland, 2017 to 2020 Background Polioviruses are human pathogens which may easily be imported via travellers from endemic areas and countries where oral polio vaccine (OPV) is still routinely used to polio-free countries. Risk of reintroduction ...
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2022-08-24ZeitschriftenartikelFacing the Omicron variant—how well do vaccines protect against mild and severe COVID-19? Third interim analysis of a living systematic review Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant is currently the dominant variant globally. This third interim analysis of a living systematic review summarizes evidence on the ...
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2022-08-30ZeitschriftenartikelMaintaining differential pressure gradients does not increase safety inside modern BSL-4 laboratories This article discusses a previously unrecognized contradiction in the design of biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) suit laboratories, also known as maximum or high containment laboratories. For decades, it is suggested that both ...
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2022-05-23ZeitschriftenartikelInvasive listeriosis outbreaks and salmon products: a genomic, epidemiological study Invasive listeriosis, caused by Listeria (L.) monocytogenes, is a severe foodborne infection, especially for immunocompromised individuals. The aim of our investigation was the identification and analysis of listeriosis ...
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2022-07-01ZeitschriftenartikelContinuous development of the semantic search engine preVIEW: from COVID-19 to long COVID preVIEW is a freely available semantic search engine for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related preprint publications. Currently, it contains >43 800 documents indexed with >4000 semantic concepts, annotated automatically. ...
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2022-04-14ZeitschriftenartikelInvestigation of an international outbreak of multidrug-resistant monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium associated with chocolate products, EU/EEA and United Kingdom, February to April 2022 An extensive multi-country outbreak of multidrug-resistant monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium infection in 10 countries with 150 reported cases, predominantly affecting young children, has been linked to chocolate products ...